Hebrew Myths: The Book Of Genesis

Hebrew Myths: The Book Of Genesis

Robert Graves

This exhaustive exploration of the Hebrew myths and the publication of Genesis resulted from a extraordinary collaboration among one pupil raised as a strict Protestant and one raised as a strict Jew. It is going past Christian biblical and Judaic fantasy and accommodates midrashes, folks stories, apocryphal texts, and different imprecise assets to increase and entire the tales. An fascinating view of the suppressed and censored pre-biblical debts is the outcome, besides a wealthy experience of a tradition which includes oral and literary traditions, the place the religious is deeply rooted in panorama and history.

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